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What To Expect From Apple's Rumored MacPad
Jeff writes "I decided to review the specifications of recent e-readers and mobile devices as well as the ongoing Apple rumor mill to chart out the most likely features, innovations and configuration we can expect from Apple's long awaited Newton successor/Mac Tablet which I'll call the MacPad. The MacPad will arrive in fall '09 or Jan '10, with a 10" diagonal color display, a $599 price point with a Verizon data plan, a stylus, note taking application and handwriting recognition and an e-bookstore for iTunes. Apple's biggest challenge will be convincing its huge installed base of iPhone owners that they need a MacPad too. Past failed Newtonian predictions by others are available on Slashdot and the likelihood that any of this is right can be gauged by earlier Confucian gems such as Haskin warns that Apple may be setting itself up for a failure with the iPhone."
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I know you're half-trolling, since the current iPhone has both GPS and a magnetic compass. And I can certainly see why you're not as irrationally excited by the iPhone as other are. But when you say "Had robust Exchange connectivity" wouldn't it be more reasonable to ask that Exchange "Had robust IMAP connectivity"? We have a widely-used, well-documented, long-established, royalty-free protocol for remote mailbox access, which the iPhone supports fairly well -- it's Exchange that doesn't speak email.
If you're going to whine about email access on a phone you should whine about the BlackBerry (any of them) and their lack of an IMAP client, or the ability to monitor more than one mail account, or the ability to not send your credentials to the BB server if you do use their non-syncing, inbox-only "IMAP" service. I know they're "helping" by providing push email, and it's not a terrible option for some people, but I get perfectly good battery life polling for email in 3 separate accounts, and the 2-minute average/4-minute maximum delay between message delivery and notification doesn't seem like a big problem for most uses.